Complexity-sensitive-artivism (manifesto 2025)
A quiet, durational practice for resisting simplification and expanding the field by
Obrestad / Dølheim
Complexity-Sensitive Artivism is a durational art practice that resists simplification.
It grows from fieldwork, care, and collaboration, from listening to the world as it changes under pressure.
We work with landscapes under extractive threat, asking not only what is happening here, but how to meet a place without compressing it.
From Fensfeltet (Norway) to Minas Gerais (Brazil), we gather artists, scientists, and communities in acts of attention, field surveys, conversations, poetry, and installations, creating living, evolving archives. This is art as infrastructure, a way of sustaining grief, relation, and possibility.
“Resistance is not always loud.”
"Attention is a form of activism."
“Don’t simplify the conflict, expand the field.”
